Princess Alia Foundation

Compassion & Respect for all Creation

About Us

The Princess Alia Foundation (PAF) was founded by H.R.H. Princess Alia Al Hussein and is a registered non profit, non governmental organization,
under the Ministry of Social Development in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Its aim is to promote compassion and respect for all Creation, using
a holistic approach and bringing all stakeholders together to work as a united front.

PAF works on many different fronts to ensure the balance between humans, animals and the environment to provide a better future for generations to come

Our Projects

The Princess Alia Foundation approaches all projects using a holistic approach.
All projects are implemented in partnership with main stakeholders in order to eliminate duplication and to pool resources.
The projects of PAF always look to sustainable long-term solutions at the grass-roots level.
All projects are designed on a needs basis where we work with local community and stakeholders to create sustainable, effective and feasible solutions on the ground.

Learning Today Leading Tomorrow

Sustainable Education

Small Miracles - The story of the Princess Alia Foundation

Contact

Send us an email and we will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible. Due to the number of E-mails received daily we may need a little time to answer your email but we will do the best we can to answer at the soonest possible time. Your thoughts, quesries and support are important to us and we thank you for taking the time to contact us in person.

A Message from Princess Alia

Over the years I have had the honour of working with various groups involved in humane causes, some mainly concerning humans, such as the society for development for Rural women, some more directed to addressing the joint welfare of working animals and the people who rely upon them for their livelihoods such as The Brooke Hospital, and yet other groups who focus more specifically on the animal side of the matter. However all of these involve the interaction between humans and creatures, and in a wider way nature as a whole.

What became most clear is that Creation is truly an indivisible whole; what touches one part of it touches all. In today's world of tough financial competition and vast populations,consideration towards others and humane behaviour tend to fall by the wayside. This is sometimes due to lack of knowledge, lack of suitable facilities, lack of time, and one frequently comes up against two arguments: one, that the problem, in our region, is cultural; the second, that there are more pressing human issues than concern for the non human parts of Creation.

Both of these arguments are in fact erroneous. Our culture -as Arabs and even more so as Muslims- totally forbids inhumane behaviour and disrespect towards our fellow beings, whether human, animal, or plant. This being the case , and these rules having been set very specifically and clearly at a time when humans were also facing hardships and struggling to survive, the argument that such things are less important today is rendered null and void.

In order to clarify these facts and to both educate and empower Muslims who are ignorant or careless of Islam's true teachings, and also in order to clarify this to our non Muslim brethren and attempt to address the various problems we encounter regularly- I was encouraged to establish the PAF along with a nucleus of dedicated and motivated relatives and friends.

I hope that all who read this will support our initiatives, treat all Creation with Compassion and Respect- and help this world to be a more humane and thus hopefully a better place for all.

Alia Al Hussein

Founder of the Princess Alia Foundation

Our Approach

The Princess Alia Foundation (PAF) approaches all projects using a holistic approach, in order to create sustainable change at the grass roots level, whilst advocating for change at the policy level.

Through creating positive partnerships and mobilising resources PAF aims to reduce duplication ensuring that efforts are directed where they are most needed.

PAF has signed Memorandums of Understanding with:

The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation

The Ministry of Agriculture

The Ministry of Municipal Affairs

The Ministry of Religious Affairs

The Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Environment

Royal Rangers for the Protection of the Environment

The Greater Amman Municipality

The Jordan University of Science and Technology

Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature

Our Mission

The Princess Alia Foundation (PAF) works to promote the balance, harmony and respect for all creation, through bringing stakeholders together under one banner, creating a functional and effective working group using a holistic approach to tackle the tasks ahead.

The foundation draws upon the knowledge and expertise of the partners in order to implement sustainable change, establishing Jordan as a leader and role model in the field.

PAF works towards ensuring the respect and balance of nature, using a holistic and humane approach.